Thomas Voegtlin

Electrum, SPV Wallets and Bitcoin Aliases

Powering an estimated 5-10% of all Bitcoin transactions, Electrum is one of the leaders of the Bitcoin wallet space. The open-source walled was started in 2011 and played a key role in the development of the light-weight SPV wallets. Developer Thomas Voegtlin joined us for a discussion of Electrum, their recent 2.0 release and the rapidly evolving Bitcoin wallet space in general.

Topics we discussed in this episode

The evolution of Bitcoin wallets and what motivated him to start Electrum

Electrum 2.0 and its new features such as Multi-sig and hardware wallet support

The security tradeoffs between using an SPV wallet versus a full node client